Alphabetti Spaghetti and psychos…

I was listening to the radio last night and they had a rather surprising topic for a phone in: What font is Alphabetti Spaghetti?  I thought this was brilliant!  Typography for the masses!  Many people had called to say that it was Arial Bold, which I suspected wasn’t right.  My suspicions were confirmed when a graphic designer called in to reveal that the font was actually good ol’ Helvetica.

A totally useless piece of information, really, but I love it :)

On another topic, I watched a new programme on the BBC the other night called Psychoville.  The whole thing was creeptacular (I’m not sure if it was in a good way or not…) but the weird notes everyone received were lovely!  I can’t find a picture of the letter, but it had a beautifully hand written message.  I wonder who the artist was?  It looked a bit to me like Alison Carmichael, but I can’t be sure.  Tell me if you know!

Tiger

I was just shown this rather lovely tin which holds a Tiger Beer keyring and has come all the way from Kuala Lumpur:

Ooooo point-perspective… I’ve loved it ever since my Year 10 graphics lessons and often find myself doodling in it (I’ll upload some of that in good time).  Lovely!

Love that ‘g’; its ear is crazy.

Type something…quick!!

Welcome to my new blog, The Quick Fox; named, of course, after “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”.  Too cliche?  Or just cliche enough?  Hmm….

A lot of other people had this idea though, so after typing in about 1001 different variations the word “quick” now looks odd to me.  I hate it when that happens.  You write something over and over until the word loses all meaning and you begin to worry that you’re not so smart after all and actually have the spelling aptitude of a four year old.  Fret not, it happens to us all…

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See?  No?  Oh, just me then…